Abstract. Emergence--macro-level effects from micro-level causes--is at the heart of the conflict between reductionism and functionalism. How can there be autonomous higher level l...
The science of complexity is based on a new way of thinking that stands in sharp contrast to the philosophy underlying Newtonian science, which is based on reductionism, determinis...
Francis Heylighen, Paul Cilliers, Carlos Gershenso...
Abstract-- Internet worms, which spread in computer networks without human mediation, pose a severe threat to computer systems today. The rate of propagation of worms has been meas...
Abstract-- In this paper, a downlink scenario in which a singleantenna base station communicates with K single antenna users, over a time-correlated fading channel, is considered. ...
Mehdi Ansari Sadrabadi, Alireza Bayesteh, Amir K. ...
Capacity gain from transmitter and receiver cooperation are compared in a relay network where the cooperating nodes are close together. Under quasi-static channels, when all nodes...